D A D AHey, Tom Banjo, hey a laurel,Em AMore than laurel you may sow.Em AMore than laurel you may sow.Em7 D A/C# Bm E/G# AHey, the laurel, hey the city in the rain,D A/C# G D/A A/G F#m Em7Hey, hey, hey the wild wheat waving in the wind.

Twenty degrees of solitude, twenty degrees in all,All the dancing kings and wives assembled in the hall.Lost is the long and loneliest town fairly sybil flying.All along the, all along the mountains of the moon.

Hey, Tom Banjo it's time to matter,The earth will see you on through this time,The earth will see you on through this time. Down by the water, the Marsh King's daughter, did you knowClothed in tatters always will be. Tom, where did you go?

Mountains of the moon, Electra, mountains of the moon,All along the, all along the mountains of the moon.Hi ho the carrion crow fol de rol de riddleHi ho the carrion crow bow and bend to me.

All the chords are standard open position chords. Also since there are some unusual chords in the song Jguitar.com is a good place to go to find chords. As for the tuning name I have no clue what the name is.

I'm a little confused here. The first post says that this is Mntns of the Moon in non-standard tuning, then the last post says the chords are all standard open position. If the song is truly in a altered tuning, then the chords wouldn't be standard open position, right?

My guess is that the tuning would either be open d (low to high: dadf#ad) or dsus4 tuning (low to high: dadgad)

Hope this makes sense; without a guitar in my hands it is tough to visualize the a/c# and the other major chords with the altered bass note. The nice thing about open tunings is that once you figure out the basic major and minor shapes they are moveable and easy to find if you keep the root note in mind.

I took the song right from my Garcia/ Hunter Songbook so the chords I put were the ones listed in the book. Also if anyone wants "What's Become Of The Baby" I could try and tab it out. It sound really nice to bad they didn't leave it the way it was.

Don't know if this is right, but could it be Dropped-D tuning? And I think you'd just play the chords as you normally would. Then again, I could be wrong.

A guy I used to play with liked to tune down a whole step (as above) because he said it was easier to sing in that tuning, and he said a lot of bands did that (which I don't find to be true). But all you do is just tune down a whole step and play the chords as you normally would.

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I believe Dropped D tuning is just the low E tuned down a whole step. I don't know if this tuning here has a name persay, it's not really altered, just all the notes are tuned down a whole step. Could be wrong though, it's happened before

Goin' home, goin' home
By the waterside I will rest my bones
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

hesgone95 wrote:I believe Dropped D tuning is just the low E tuned down a whole step. I don't know if this tuning here has a name persay, it's not really altered, just all the notes are tuned down a whole step. Could be wrong though, it's happened before

Nope, yer right. My bad for the above post. But....I do think you play the chords in the same spot. No guitar on hand, so I can't confirm this.

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hesgone95 wrote:I believe Dropped D tuning is just the low E tuned down a whole step. I don't know if this tuning here has a name persay, it's not really altered, just all the notes are tuned down a whole step. Could be wrong though, it's happened before

Nope, yer right. My bad for the above post. But....I do think you play the chords in the same spot. No guitar on hand, so I can't confirm this.

Yeah, you're right about the positions, the only thing different is the name. An open A played in this tuning would be a G. The same idea as a capo, just down instead of up. Also I looked it up and according to Wikipedia Dropped D can also include the high e tuned down to d.

Goin' home, goin' home
By the waterside I will rest my bones
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

A guy I used to play with liked to tune down a whole step (as above) because he said it was easier to sing in that tuning, and he said a lot of bands did that (which I don't find to be true).

Great vid! I always like watching that one. I used to have a guitar that I tuned down a whole step because it is easier to sing and I know of a some songs that sound WAY better that way. It is also a great way to play along with another guitarist and sound cool, since you're playing the same "chords" but in different voicings. Also, you just capo at 2nd fret and you play along with anyone.

As for songs that were done that way: The Jokeralmost every song by the Velvet Underground, i.e., Sunday Morning, Sweet Jane, Heroin, Rock and Roll, etc.Most of CCR including Bad Moon Rising, Proud Mary and LodiMany Neil Young songs like Hey, Hey, My, My, Sugar Mountain, Rocking in the Free World

If you play these songs in this way, it really gives you that exact sound that seems to be missing when you do it in "standard" tuning.

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